People Quotes
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true.George Bernard Shaw
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.Dwight David Eisenhowe
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.Nigel
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.Christopher Darlington Morley
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.Jefferson Davis
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.Lady Asto
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.Agnes de Mille
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy - Eight in Los Angles.Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.Henry Ward Beeche
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
Fame is proof that people are gullible.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.Malcolm Forbes
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.Lee Iacocca
Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet?Roger Mille
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.Bertrand Russell
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.Lord Chesterfield
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.Confucius
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.Virginia
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.Elizabeth Berg
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.Alexander Pope
